Tim wanting to be a man

Authors note: I wrote this essay on the main conflict in the book My Brother Sam Is Dead and explaining the conflict and how it was resolved during the book.

In the book “My Brother Sam Is Dead”, there are many conflicts like Sam and his dad but the main conflict is Sam’s brother Tim wanting to be a man. The main conflict in the story is Tim wanting to be a man but cant because he is too young.

In the book it is easy to tell that Sam is Tim’s role model he looks up to Sam in every way and wishes he could do what Sam can do but he is too young to do it. Like going on trips with his dad to trade cows and other things for money to run the tavern. But Tim is stuck doing chores around the house like milking the cows and collecting eggs from the chickens. Or like go to college and score what they call “telling points” that I think it is an old saying for bragging rights.

But the conflict was resolved in the book when father needed Tim to go on a trip with him to sell cattle. Well on the way back something tragic happened, father got captured and Tim had to pull the cart home it was a long way too. Since father had been killed and Sam was in war it was up to Tim and his mom to do all the chores and run the tavern. So Tim had to take up much more chores and duties, but after he took the long trip home he had changed he had no longer dreaded doing chores, he was okay with them and was ready to do the extra work, therefore the conflict had ended and Tim had become a man on the inside by what he changed even Sam had admitted that Tim had changed a lot.

In the book “My Brother Sam Is Dead” the main conflict is Tim wanting to be a man like his brother Sam and as the book progresses he does become a man on the inside taking up more tasks around the house so symbolically he did become a man